Library Guides: Plant and Microbial Biology: Get Started

Welcome!

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Bioscience and Natural Resources Library

Visit the Bioscience, Natural Resources & Public Health Library in the Valley Life Sciences Building. Reference Desk hours are Monday-Friday 1pm-3pm, or by appointment.

Getting connected

Connecting from Off Campus
Download the proxy bookmarklet to access Library e-resources from off-campus or while on CalVisitor wifi. If you are having trouble with the proxy, VPN is another option.
Student Tech Support
Get help with your technology via phone, email, or Zoom.
WiFi in the libraries
To access library resources on your laptop or other device, use AirBears2 or use the proxy bookmarklet with CalVisitor.
Equipment Lending
Guide to equipment that can be checked out at UCB libraries - laptops, chargers, presentation equipment, and more.

New and Exciting

Library Events

Calendar of Library Workshops
The Science Libraries offer drop-in workshops, particularly towards the beginning of each semester. Topics include Data Management, GIS, Citation Management, Productivity Tools, Data Visualization, and more.
Subscribe to Library Workshop Calendar

For workshops on software, data analysis, and programming languages such as R and Python, watch the BIDS and D-Lab calendars or subscribe to their email lists.

Lynda has online classes in R, Python, GIS, and much more.

New Library Resources

Ovid Medline
The Ovid interface to MEDLINE. Citations and abstracts for articles published in medicine, life sciences, public health, health administration, veterinary medicine, nursing, molecular biology, genetics, and more. [Mid-19th century - present]

MEDLINE is the core content that makes up PubMed and is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine. Features provided by Ovid are advanced mapping, which analyzes users' natural language queries and suggests appropriate terms for searching, and a thesaurus which automatically suggests synonymous or related terms and allows for expanded searching.
Repbase
A database of prototypic sequences representing repetitive DNA from different eukaryotic species, together with analytical software.

Used in genome sequencing projects such as RepeatMasker or CENSOR as a reference collection for masking and annotation of repetitive DNA.
Protocols.io
A repository of shared protocols submitted by researchers.
Note: UC students, faculty, and staff have access to premium features such as unlimited private group files, shared notebook records, unlimited storage, and protocol import assistance. For more information about signing up for your free Premium account, please visit this page.
Horticulture Compendium
Reference work that compiles knowledge on horticulture crops worldwide, including fruits, vegetables, and commodity crops.

Contains over 250 detailed datasheets on major and minor crops describing the crop lifecycle from growth stages to postharvest and consumption. Also includes information on crop pests, a multilingual glossary, more than 1000 images, and country datasheets containing statistics on agricultural production.
Henry Stewart Talks: Biomedical & Life Sciences Collection
Video lectures by leading experts on subjects including biochemistry, cancer, cell biology, genetics & epigenetics, infectious diseases, metabolism & nutrition, microbiology, neuroscience and more.

Additional topics include agriculture & environmental sciences, clinical medicine, immunology, methods, omics & systems biology, pharmaceutical sciences, and reproduction & development. Lecture slides and full text transcripts are available.